Summary: student at
Arapahoe High School in Denver, Colorado who had shot and critically wounded a
female classmate identified as 17-year-old Claire Davis, then fatally shot
himself after he requested to see a school librarian following a previous
altercation from being demoted on the school debate team earlier this week, in
which the shooting incident unfolded on the eve of the Newtown massacre
anniversary as a somber reminder of the ever-present potential for violence in
the nation's schools.